16 Mar
2004
16 Mar
'04
12:20 a.m.
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 08:00:20AM -0600, Paul Berger wrote:
I've got a Gigabyte motherboard from the same
period with the issue ...
three caps on the board are bulging or split on top. I bought three of
the same model boards at the same time and only one of them have had
that happen.
I repaired two embedded Intel/AMD boards down here with the same issue...
Unfortunately, one went back to its old behavior of locking up as if
overheating. :-(
I pulled the caps from an ordinary dead motherboard... for some reason,
we don't stock 1000uF 6.3VDC caps... the lowest voltage (and smallest
package size) we have is 16VDC. Too large to fit (mechanical clearance
issue in a non-standard enclosure).
I've also seen plenty of motherboards back in the States in a similar
condition.
-ethan
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